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TWO BOYS DROWNED

CAPSIZE OF CANOE TRAGEDY AT BRIGHTON COMPANIONS ESCAPE (Per Preqs Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. When a canoe containing four boys overturned at Brighton yesterday, two boys were drowned. The victims were Colin Venville, aged 16, and Harry Planner, 15. The canoe was a quarter of a mile from the shore in a calm sea, but the boys’ weight loaded it down so that it had only 4in. of freeboard. When the boys decided to return to shore the canoe capsized in turning. The only swimmer in the party, Percival King, 17, swam to the beach and returned' immediately ’ with rescuers in a rowing boat, but they found only Ronald Planner, 17, clinging to the upturned canoe, the others having sunk.

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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 6

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TWO BOYS DROWNED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 6

TWO BOYS DROWNED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 20 November 1939, Page 6

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